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Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company presents Edward Bond's The Sea, a comedy based on Shakespeare's, The Tempest, which emphasizes the strengths and weaknesses between humans and society while challenging the audience to strive for change in the world. 

One of the most frightening and tense theatrical experiences Pittsburgh has to offer right now, supported by incredible sound design and brilliant performances.

 The REP Professional Theatre Company presents the Pittsburgh Premiere of Halley Feiffer's I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard,  the navigation of the complicated divide of father-daughter relationships, as each struggles in one way or another, to make the other proud.

 The REP Professional Theatre Company presents the Pittsburgh Premiere of Halley Feiffer's I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard,  the navigation of the complicated divide of father-daughter relationships, as each struggles in one way or another, to make the other proud.

The REP at the Pittsburgh Playhouse began its 2016-2017 season with a bang, producing a bold and unapologetically poignant piece of theatre featuring an incredibly diverse cast with an important social message.

The REP Professional Theatre Company will be opening the 2016-2017 season with the Pittsburgh premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out!.

The REP Professional Theatre Company will be opening the 2016-2017 season with the Pittsburgh premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out!.

City Theatre's Summer Shorts Sing

Playhouse Jr., Point Park University's professional quality children's theatre company, will be wrapping up the 2015-2016 season and kicking off the summer with two unique and entertaining shows for children of all ages.

Playhouse Jr., Point Park University's professional quality children's theatre company, will be wrapping up the 2015-2016 season and kicking off the summer with two unique and entertaining shows for children of all ages.

The REP Professional Theatre Company will be wrapping up the 2015-2016 season with the Pittsburgh premiere of last year's Pulitzer Prize winning play, 'The Flick,' a comedic look at three employees working their underpaid jobs while dealing with popcorn on the floor, but more importantly, everyday life and relationships.

John Patrick Shanley taps into his Irish roots in Outside Mullingar, a warm, lyrical, brooding romantic comedy in which two lonely people on the cusp of middle age are too obstinate to take a chance on love. The play opens at Palm Beach Dramaworks on March 25 and continues through April 24, with specially priced previews on March 23 and 24.

Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company continues its 2015-2016 season with THE BLUEST EYE, the heart wrenching story of a young girl named Pecola growing up in the 1940s who wishes to be anyone other than herself because of the difficulty and hardship she faces in her daily life.

Playhouse Jr., Point Park University's family theatre company, continues its 2015-2016 season with a holiday production of A 1940S RADIO CHRISTMAS CAROL.

Playhouse Jr., Point Park University's family theatre company, continues its 2015-2016 season with a holiday production of A 1940S RADIO CHRISTMAS CAROL.

Familiar fairy tale characters, and a few new ones, get the musical treatment in Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning 1986 musical, Into the Woods.

MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL-THE SURVIVOR TOUR is a great deal of fun. Each bouncy number has plenty of clever lyrics and deliberately silly choreography to keep the audience laughing. It is almost impossible not to clap and dance along with the performers as they perform such antics as playing instruments consisting of kitchen implements while singing 'The sheets are wet, the sheets are wet,' in a send-up of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.'

The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, continues its 2015-2016 season with "Genius Grant" recipient Tarell Alvin McCraney's play Choir Boy.

The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, opens the 2015-2016 season with The Country House by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Donald Margulies.

Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company closes its 2014-2015 season with a production of Tennessee Williams' timeless steamy classic, A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Martin Giles, A Streetcar Named Desire runs tonight, April 17, through April 26 in the Rauh Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!